# US states by trade, transportation and utilities payroll employment, August 2026

All 51 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2026-08, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `payroll_employment_trade_transportation_utilities`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Number of jobs on trade, transportation and utilities payrolls in the month, seasonally adjusted, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The supersector covers wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, and utilities.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, trade, transportation and utilities, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000004000000001) (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.66.TradeTransUtilities.Current)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, trade, transportation and utilities, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000004000000001). https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.66.TradeTransUtilities.Current. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/trade-transportation-utilities-jobs/us-states

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 3,067,800 |
| 2 | Texas | 2,812,500 |
| 3 | Florida | 1,989,600 |
| 4 | New York | 1,475,400 |
| 5 | Illinois | 1,217,500 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 1,131,200 |
| 7 | Ohio | 1,050,600 |
| 8 | Georgia | 1,032,500 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 940,600 |
| 10 | New Jersey | 891,200 |
| 11 | Michigan | 799,800 |
| 12 | Virginia | 694,000 |
| 13 | Tennessee | 684,600 |
| 14 | Indiana | 638,100 |
| 15 | Arizona | 629,000 |
| 16 | Washington | 628,200 |
| 17 | Missouri | 560,800 |
| 18 | Massachusetts | 555,600 |
| 19 | Wisconsin | 535,500 |
| 20 | Minnesota | 525,600 |
| 21 | Colorado | 502,400 |
| 22 | Maryland | 448,500 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 447,000 |
| 24 | Kentucky | 424,400 |
| 25 | Alabama | 401,100 |
| 26 | Louisiana | 375,300 |
| 27 | Oregon | 351,600 |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 317,500 |
| 29 | Utah | 313,500 |
| 30 | Iowa | 304,300 |
| 31 | Nevada | 298,900 |
| 32 | Connecticut | 298,400 |
| 33 | Arkansas | 275,200 |
| 34 | Kansas | 273,500 |
| 35 | Mississippi | 249,700 |
| 36 | Nebraska | 193,900 |
| 37 | Idaho | 167,700 |
| 38 | New Mexico | 150,900 |
| 39 | New Hampshire | 134,000 |
| 40 | West Virginia | 121,300 |
| 41 | Maine | 118,600 |
| 42 | Hawaii | 114,800 |
| 43 | Montana | 101,400 |
| 44 | North Dakota | 91,800 |
| 45 | South Dakota | 90,200 |
| 46 | Delaware | 89,300 |
| 47 | Rhode Island | 80,500 |
| 48 | Alaska | 68,900 |
| 49 | Wyoming | 52,500 |
| 50 | Vermont | 51,000 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 29,600 |